San Saba
W - 75 Ft
This freighter was built 1879, powered by coal-fired steam. She was sunk on October 1918, while heading south from New York to Florida. The San Saba was carrying general cargo for the US Railroad administration when it struck a mine off the New Jersey coast. The mine was set by the German U-boat U-117. The bow section is known as the Magnolia, where magnolia ingots are occasionally uncovered by sifting sands. This is an excellent digging wreck and numerous bottles, spoons, dishes, bullets, screws and assorted oddities are recovered.
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German mine-laying submarine U-117 arrived off the east coast of U.S. on 10 August 1918 and laid mines, which played a part in sinking of 13 Allied ships and vessels. U-117, launched on 10 December 1917 with Kapitänleutnant Otto Droscher in command, was a UE-II series long-range minelaying U-boat which sank the San Saba and the nearby Chaparra.
